Abstracts

If you would like to present a poster or podium presentation please submit a 250 word abstract to Dr. Julienne Rutherford at ruther4d@uic.edu by September 1, 2012. Additional details will be available at the MPIG website at http://www.mpig.org/. You will need to pay your registration fee at the time of submission (see below).

Registration Fees

Students will need to pay a $15 registration fee; faculty will need to pay a $40 registration fee. Those submitting an abstract must pay at the time of submission (Sept 1st) by sending a check to Dr. Bob Sussman, MPIG Treasurer at Campus Box 1114, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

POSTERS

1. Manual Preferences of Wild and Captive Howler Monkeys

Dominique Dallas

Language and Literacy Lab, University of Michigan, DANTA: Association for Conservation of the Tropics

2. How do age differences in Cebus capucinus compare in terms of object manipulation frequency?

Faith Stemmler

Dept. of Biology, Park University

3. How Social Status and Gender Affect Agonistic and Affiliative Behavior in Captive Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)

1 Dept. of Women, Children, and Family Health Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2 Dept. of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 3 Dept. of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

17. Cross-species comparisons of the retrosplenial cortex in primates: through time and neuropil space.